Study results revealed that nursing students has common and unique perspectives on the importance of a clinical
instructor demonstrating effective characteristics. They identified all of the effective characteristic categories
between important and most important. On the others hand personality traits are the lowest category (72.6%) while
the knowledge and experience followed by interpersonal relationship and evaluation procedures are the most
important effective characteristics from student point of view. In addition, caring behaviors demonstrated by clinical
instructors were identified. Data revealed nursing students perceived their clinical instructors demonstrated the
highest number of caring behaviors from the subscales of respectful sharing and appreciation of life’s meanings.
Conversely they perceived some clinical instructors less frequently demonstrated caring behaviors within control
versus flexibility subscale. An implication is By providing students with an environment that could enrich their
experience with all facets of nursing roles, the clinical instructor allowed students to gain self-confidence, to be self-directed, and to develop professional and clinical skills necessary to carry students into their future practice
areas.